Producing Johnny Borrell’s ‘Carrickfergus’
Completely forgot about this one! In August Air Studios engineer Nick Cervonaro asked me if I would help him out with a charity project Bruce Parry ( from the BBC’s brilliant ‘Tribe’ series ) was putting together for Survival International.
I was asked to do some arranging on the Johnny Borrell ( Razorlight ) track ‘Carrickfurgus’ which was in the demo stage at the time. Nick had the files which were in a pretty basic state with some loops and a vocal track and a rough sketch of the chords.
We eventually decided to re-record the entire track and just keep the vocal and ended up co-producing the track together. Nick took care of the engineering and mixing duties and I arranged the music and eventually ended up playing or programming all the instrumentation!
The whole thing was done in one day from start to finish in Studio 2 at Air.
It was only the fact I saw the track in my inbox that I remembered it. I went on iTunes and sure enough there it was. The album features tracks from KT Tunstall, Yusif Islam, Hot Chip, The Go! Team and Will.i.am to name a few. It’s called Amazon Tribe – Songs for Survival and is available from all good music retailers.
On a guitar note, I used my fantastic Atkin ‘Dreadnought’ for the acoustics ( and percussion! ) and my Telecaster though an old Vox AC30 with a Custom Audio Electronics boost pedal by MXR for the electrics.
Go out and buy it, it’s for a good cause! Did I mention we all did it for free!
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Posted on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 8:16 pm.